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usually steel but sometimes copper."Typographed" — Any of the methods of letterpress

printing."Lithographed" — Printed either from stones or any of

the more modern processes.

"Offset" — Printed by the process that offsets the designon the plates to a rubber roll and thence to the paper;a form of lithography.

"Embossed" — Printed from striking dies which raisethe uninked surface of the paper.

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